Digital studio in Valais — web applications, AI and computer vision for Swiss SMEs.
Digital studio in Valais — web applications, AI and computer vision for Swiss SMEs.
Custom web apps for European SMEs — React, Next.js, Swiss hosting.
A Swiss engineering studio based in Sierre, Valais, building production-grade web applications for companies across Europe. React, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL — the modern stack, deployed responsibly and handed over cleanly.
TechSolve is a small, senior software studio based at the Technopôle in Sierre, Valais. We design, build and maintain custom web applications for companies that need serious engineering without the overhead of a Zurich or London agency. Our clients range from Swiss SMEs and cantonal authorities to European SaaS start-ups and industrial groups — united by the fact that off-the-shelf software cannot solve their actual problem.
We are a service business, not a code factory. Every engagement starts with a real discovery conversation about your users, your constraints and your economics. Only then do we propose an architecture, a phased plan and a fixed-price scope for phase one. If we think you do not need what you are asking for, we will say so.
Most of our engagements fall into one of the following categories. If your project sits between two of them, that is usually a good sign.
Multi-tenant, subscription-based products with strong authentication, automated billing (Stripe, Paddle, Twint), analytics dashboards and internationalisation.
Secure interfaces where your customers view invoices, track orders, upload documents, open support tickets and collaborate with your team.
KPI visualisation, production monitoring, scheduling, field-service management. Connected to your existing databases, third-party APIs or even spreadsheets.
Custom storefronts using Next.js Commerce, Shopify Hydrogen or Medusa, with multi-currency checkout, Swiss and European payment providers and integrated shipping.
When full ERPs are too heavy or too expensive, we build focused back-office apps: workshop scheduling, inventory, timesheets, HR workflows, approval chains.
Connectors between your tools (HubSpot, Salesforce, Microsoft 365, Odoo, Bexio, Abacus), automation workflows, and documented REST or GraphQL APIs for your partners.
Swiss and European SMEs rarely need another generic SaaS subscription — they need software that reflects how their business actually works. A well-scoped custom web application replaces brittle spreadsheets, reduces manual work, structures customer data and gives your team a single, auditable source of truth. We build every project around the people who will use it daily, with Swiss hosting on request and a clear runway for future evolution.
We deliberately work within a focused, modern ecosystem so that your code can be maintained, extended or handed over to any competent team in the future. Every endpoint is tested, versioned, logged and ships through a CI/CD pipeline.
We start with a free half-day discovery workshop. The goal is to understand your business, your users, your regulatory constraints and your economic model. We leave the workshop with a functional map, a detailed cost estimate and a plan with clear milestones.
Before writing code, we prototype every key screen in Figma. You validate user flows, information hierarchy and visual language. For public-facing products we also user-test the prototypes with real users, so we know the interface works before we commit development budget to it.
We work in two-week sprints. At the end of every sprint, a new build is deployed to a staging environment you can click through from your browser. Feedback goes straight into the next sprint. You watch your product grow, week by week, with no tunnel effect and no surprises.
Before launch we run a full acceptance phase: functional testing, performance testing (Lighthouse, k6), security testing against the OWASP Top 10 and accessibility testing with axe and WAVE. Go-live happens with zero downtime, a staged cut-over and a rollback plan ready on the shelf.
After launch, we stay around. A maintenance contract guarantees response times for incidents and a monthly budget for new features. Every quarter we review real usage data together to prioritise what matters most.
Working with a studio based in Sierre, Valais means you get a senior engineering partner in the Central European time zone, comfortable working in English, German and French. We host data in Switzerland whenever your compliance posture requires it — health, finance, public sector — and invoice in Swiss francs or euros as you prefer. No mystery offshore team, no opaque subcontracting chain, no 8-hour response lag.
Web projects rarely stand alone. Many of our clients combine them with our work in artificial intelligence and machine learning or machine vision, and you can see the full catalogue on our services overview page.
A minimum viable product (MVP) usually ships in 6 to 10 weeks. A more complete business application — with authentication, dashboards and third-party integrations — takes between 3 and 6 months. We work in two-week sprints and release a testable version every two to three weeks so you can validate direction as we go, instead of waiting six months for a big reveal.
From the scoping phase we agree on two or three measurable indicators: hours saved per week, error rate, turnaround time or additional revenue. A well-designed customer portal typically saves 8 to 12 hours of re-keying per week and lifts prospect conversion by 20 to 40%. Most of our applications pay back in 6 to 12 months through the time freed up for the team and the extra revenue or productivity delivered.
On the front end we work mainly with React, Next.js and TypeScript. On the back end, Node.js (Express, NestJS, Fastify) and Python (FastAPI, Django) cover most of our work. PostgreSQL is our default database, with MongoDB or Redis when appropriate. We deploy on Vercel, AWS, Cloudflare or on Swiss sovereign providers (Infomaniak, Exoscale) depending on your residency requirements.
You choose. For European and international clients, Vercel, AWS Europe and Cloudflare offer excellent performance. For Swiss clients with residency requirements, we deploy to Infomaniak, Exoscale or Swisscom so that data stays in Switzerland. The choice is discussed upfront based on latency, cost and your legal constraints (GDPR, Swiss FADP, sector-specific regulation).
Yes. We offer three levels of maintenance contract: corrective (critical bug fixes within 24 hours), evolutive (monthly feature budget) and managed (24/7 monitoring, backups, security patching). Most clients pick the evolutive tier to keep the application up to date, secure and aligned with their evolving processes.
Absolutely. From day one, code lives on your own Git repository — GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or a self-hosted Gitea. You retain full ownership of source code, designs and operational rights. There is no vendor lock-in: you can move the project to another team at any point.
Yes. We build to WCAG 2.2 level AA by default: sufficient contrast, keyboard navigation, ARIA attributes, semantic labels and testing with screen readers (NVDA, VoiceOver). For public-sector clients or industries with stricter regulation, we can target AAA on critical user journeys.
We apply privacy-by-design principles from the first sprint: data minimisation, explicit consent, access logging, user-facing export and deletion. GDPR (for European users) and the revised Swiss FADP (in force since September 2023) are covered by default. We also supply the usual paperwork — privacy policy, record of processing activities and data processing agreements for your subprocessors.
A marketing site presents your company to a wide audience (content, branding, contact). A custom web application is an internal or client-facing tool that runs processes: authentication, data management, workflows, integrations. Complexity, budget and maintenance are fundamentally different — a marketing site attracts visitors, while a custom business application runs the company and pays itself back through the time it saves your teams.
Yes, this is one of our most frequent projects for Swiss SMEs. We migrate critical spreadsheets (stock management, quotes, scheduling, homemade CRMs) to secure multi-user web applications with history, access control and Swiss hosting. The transition happens in phases, without data loss.
Book a 30-minute call and we will map out your project with you. Free discovery workshop, transparent pricing, sprint delivery. Your code, your property, Swiss hosting on request.
TechSolve Ribeiro — Sierre, Valais, Switzerland — +41 78 925 66 30 — info@techsolve.ch